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A-Z Databases: Biological Sciences

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39 Databases found for Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences Databases

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Provides extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles. Provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.
AccessScience gives full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology. It is updated daily. It also includes biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
Access is limited to 2 simultaneous users.
Africa-Wide Information combines databases (African Studies, South African Studies, and African Healthline) to form a multidisciplinary aggregation offering unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. This resource is essential for those with an interest in African research, and information on and about Africa.
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Online access to the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from up to 70 journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly
available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus™ provides full text of articles from over 100 journals dating back to 1997, as well as indexing and abstracts of more than 380 publications. Subject coverage includes agriculture & agricultural research, atmospheric science, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology microbiology, physics and much more.
Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Botanicus is made possible through support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, W.M. Keck Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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South African research projects in economics, science, humanities and includes masters and doctoral theses from South African Universities and technikons, as well as research works from government, non-government and private sectors.

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The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books that meet academic standards.
The directory contains information about open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified.
Click on DoPP Login to identify material from more than 40,000 conferences, meetings & symposia. Subjects covered: Science/Technology; Medical/Life Sciences; Pollution Control/Ecology; Social Sciencs/Humanities.

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The Encyclopedia of Cell Biology provides 285 articles written by domain experts, fully cross-referenced, one-stop resource for students, researchers, and teaching faculty across the biological and medical sciences. Contents cover every aspect of cell biology with fully annotated figures, abundant illustrations, videos, and references for further reading.

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Faculty of 1000 is the next generation literature awareness tool. It is a revolutionary new online research service that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.

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Topics covered include astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, health & medicine, zoology etc. It is accessed via the EBSCOhost platform.
The largest of its kind, Global Plants is a community-contributed database where worldwide herbaria can share their plant type specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations.

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This is a collection of specially prepared animated audio visual presentations with synchronized narration by world leading scientists.

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Indexed articles from more than 600 South African periodicals. Go to the database link and also tick "SA ePublications", which will bring additional hits with full-text links.

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JoVE, the leading creator and provider of video-based solutions that increase the productivity and efficacy of STEM research and education. Creates the ultimate solutions for advancing research and science education by making and publishing videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe. Allowing scientists, educators and students to see the intricate details of cutting-edge experiments rather than read them in text articles.
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JSTOR provides access to a number of older journal articles.

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Free online English dictionary and thesaurus, including audio pronunciation.

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Alternate Name(s) Open Education Resources, textbooks
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Note that textbooks are included in these resources. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.
UCT Libraries has provided a hosting service in open access journal publishing access since 2015. UCT Libraries are advocates for open access publishing, providing resources for researchers to make their work freely accessible in various ways.
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. Select a subject of interest by clicking "Browse Subjects".

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Alternate Name(s) SA ePublications
This service is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform which focuses on information originating from or pertaining to Africa. Previously SA ePublications
Scientific Electronic Library Online
Access to journals and ebooks published by Elsevier Science.
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"Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process."
SpringerProtocols is the largest subscription-based electronic database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences.
Major areas of coverage include: Human Population Dynamics; Population - Environment Relations; Population Statistics and Policy; Ecotourism; Sustainable Living and Consumption; Environmental Awareness and Education; Environmental Law, Conventions, & Policy; Sustainable Resource Base: Atmosphere; Land; Water and Biodiversity; Economic Drivers; Sustainable Development and Production; Sustainable Energy; Sustainable Transportation/Mobility.

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Bibliographic records of theses and dissertations at Master and Doctorate level submitted to universities in SA since 1918. Updated annually.

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The Web of Science is a large, broad-based abstracting database with direct links to journal articles.
Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, 9000 books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

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eReference Books are a good place to begin your search and to thoroughly understand the topic you are researching.

Dictionaries provide definitions of unfamiliar terms.
Encyclopedias give explanations and succinct overviews of topics.



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